he says that a friend from 2009, in his words, brainwashed tamerlan. listen. >> there's a person from some new convert into islam from armenian descent. armenians have no intention to say anything about armenians, it's a neighboring region with north caucasus. i said this person just took his brain, just brainwashed him completely. tamerlan is off now, there's no any obedience and respect to his own father. >> turn now to congressman, chairman of the house judiciary committee from virginia, he attended yesterday's fbi briefing on the boston bombings. congressman, thank you so much for joining us this morning. let me first ask you about two pieces of information that we just heard. first, about this armenian figure known as misha. that the uncle to the tsarnaev brothers saying influenced tamerlan somehow over the years. is that something some information that was included in your intelligence briefings that have you heard anything about this mysterious figure? >> this is -- this is new information, and it's important that we have the appropriate aauthor